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Originally posted by misterX
but thats the whole point god didn't tell him to type z,
example. if you was sitting by the comp with a friend, and you told him you was going to type the letter z. And you did. Did your friend make you type that letter? he had full knowledge that you was going to. he knew all along that you was gonna type the letter z, but he still didn't make you type the letter z. you did.
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Well, the difference here is that god supposedly knows with divine certainty. Which is different than the knowledge my friend has. Take these two scenarios:
Scenario 1:
You are born, you go through life, then one day as you are crossing the street you get hit by a car and die.
Scenario 2:
You are born, you go through life, then one day you get a message from god in a fortune cookie that says: "You will be hit by a car and die tomorrow while you are crossing the street."
You do everything you can to avoid the street. You stay home, watch TV ... then you fall asleep. You wake up in the middle of the road (sleepwalking?? You've never done that before!) and you get hit by a car and die.
The second scenario is almost the same as the first ... the only difference is you shared in god's knowledge for a brief time. But you were still unable to change your fate. (Assuming that god never lies, and is never wrong). If god knows your life, from beginning to end, then you are destined to live that life ... you cannot change it. The fact that you are ignorant of what god knows gives you the illusion that you have free will. But if you had god's knowledge of ONLY your life, that illusion would disappear. You would go through your life, knowing everything that would happen, being completely unable to change any of it.